I GREW up in a low-income FAMILY. I was RAISED by a SINGLE MOTHER.

Too OFTEN, low-income Americans MUST CHOOSE between paying for medicine and having their HEAT shut off.

We cannot AFFORD to LOSE the MEDICAID FUNDING for low-income WOMEN.

Me, COMING from a low-income background, I really didn't TAKE my STUDIES serious as a young KID.

From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood RECEIVED $342 MILLION in federal taxpayer MONEY through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family PLANNING and contraceptive services as well as SCREENING for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women.

I SUPPORT PROGRESSIVE revenue sources that ease the burden on low-income and WORKING-CLASS individuals and families who are least ABLE to SHOULDER the burden of regressive taxes and fees.

As I examine PROGRESSIVE revenue OPTIONS, I want to MAKE sure wealthy individuals and businesses pay their fair SHARE, that we reduce the burden on low-income and middle-class families, and not drive businesses from Chicago or CREATE a disincentive for businesses to invest in our city.

Taxes and fees in Chicago and Cook County are FORCING low-income families LIKE the one I grew up in out of this CITY. It's clear we can't keep treating low-income and middle-class families like an ATM machine with no LIMIT.

It's TRUE that not every day a little black GIRL in a low-income family from a segregated steel TOWN MAKES the runoff to be the mayor of the third-largest city in America.